The Natural History Museum of Isfahan, Iran, is located in a building that dates from the 15th century Timurid era. The building includes large halls and a veranda which are decorated by muqarnas and stucco.[1] This building became a museum in 1988. [2]
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موزه تاریخ طبیعی | |
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  Location within Iran | |
| General information | |
| Status | Cultural |
| Type | Museum |
| Architectural style | Azeri |
| Location | Isfahan, Iran |
| Coordinates | 32°39′29″N 51°40′27″E / 32.6580°N 51.6741°E |
| Owner | Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization |
Halls edit
The museum has seven halls:
- Guidance hall
- Invertebrates hall, containing: Unicellular organisms, sponges, corals, echinoderms, mollusca, arthropods, insects, and seashells.
- Botany hall has different kinds of flowering plants, whole plants, medicinal plants, and tree trunks.
- Geology hall contains all constituents of the Earth's solid crust, including minerals, crystals, ore, and sedimentary rocks.
- Hall of physical geography and map of geology, plants, animals, ... [3]
- Vertebrates hall contains different kinds of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, which are kept as taxidermy specimens.
- Hall of Graphic training aids
Architecture edit
This building has several large halls and a porch decorated with Muqarnas and stucco. There are plastic dinosaurs in front of the building which some may regard as incongruous with the building's architecture.
Gallery edit
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ 'Hosseyn Yaghoubi (2004). Arash Beheshti (ed.). Rāhnamā ye Safar be Ostān e Esfāhān(Travel Guide for the Province Isfahan) (in Persian). Rouzane. p. 137. ISBN 964-334-218-2.
- ^ Natural History MuseumIran: Isfahan
- ^ Natural History Museum of IsfahanA Story of Nature